Alex zane and alexa chung dating

· 19-Jan-2016 12:43

Zane is the compere and producer of Funny Rotten Scoundrels, eight filmed comedy nights that form part of the roster of original content on London Live, the digital TV channel launched by the Standard’s owners on Monday.“Comedy has become quite homogenised on TV,” says Zane.“There are a lot of big theatre shows — your Comedy Roadshow, your Live at the Apollo.After becoming a TV personality, Chung made a return to occasional modelling.In 2008, she was the face of Australian fashion label Antipodium's SS 2008 collection and Oxfam's ethical fashion range, Revamped.After four years, Chung quit modelling with the intention of beginning an art foundation or fashion journalism course, having become disillusioned.

The youngest of four children, Hampshire-born Alexa was raised by her English mother and Chinese father. He’s all wild hair and gawky charm, twisting his pipecleaner limbs into knots, looking much the same as he did at 27, presenting Popworld alongside Alexa Chung on Channel 4, or at 18, when he made the finals of the stand-up comedy competition So You Think You’re Funny at the Edinburgh Festival.We’ve met today at Soho’s Century Club, where those parallel strands of his career, TV presenting and stand-up, will finally come together.They discuss different approaches to comedy and different audiences: Londoners are “more sophisticated” but “less grateful” than others, apparently. “It really enhances your enjoyment of a comedian if you have even just an iota of knowledge of what they are like,” says Zane, and he is right.The stand-out stand-up of the first show is twentysomething Sean Mc Loughlin, who does a blistering routine about being poor (“Ever noticed that your tears are thinner when there’s no potassium in your diet?